The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-01-05
TIE LABOR MOVEMENT.
STRIKES THAT RESULTED FOR GOOD
OR FOR ILL -. e.:

Tho Demand for Eight uours--Tho Big
Bomb Throwors-Bis Packing House
Strikcs-Strect Railway Tic Ups.
JANUARY.
e Great Striko and lockout OF phe snct-
necrS OF tho elevated railroad system OF Now
ok city. Travel wns elmost entirely sus-
pended Cor day or two.
so A riot occurred at Mount Pleasant, Pa
The police end the Hungarian strikers had o
collision, I'm which Eevcral &C both payties
werc injured
% Six thousand glovemaScrs Of johns
town and Gloversvillc, II. Y, struck for
higher wages Tho strike wos not CT very
onG duration
PEERUARY.
8. Tho employees OF tho Now York, Soventh
avenue, For-th avenue, sixth avonue and
brocdTay surface roads strike successfully
for reduction OF hours.
uARcH
8. brooklyn street car lines all stied up"
5. General tic up Of tho street railroads
OF Now York city. IS required 750 police
mon to force ear through Graad ptraet,
where great crowd had assembled
6. Fivo hundred men, knights OF Labor,
employed in the Missouri Pacific railroad
of tho noon whistle. Ono thousand other en-
ployes who wero also knights also struck.
Tho freight business of the road Is paralyzed.
z. Secret meeting hcl1 at st. Louis, at
which tho passenger engineers, brakcnlen,
switchnicn and liremen Of tho Missouri Pc
ciflc system decided TO Join tee freight han
dlcrs' and carshop striKo Accordingly mono
OF thcm reported fer work. and 6000 mieo
of road idle. Inmonso freight blockade.
.. Employees of tho Troy and Lsrsingburg
street railroad at Troy, II. Y, struck fer
fower hours Of work. Demands granted.
.. Five thousand employees Of tho "Gould"
railroad system were discharged on the Mis-
souri, Pacific.
TO- Vicc-Presdeit II. Id. Hoxio, OF tho
Missouri Pacific iailroad declines to confer
with tho knights OF Labor or committee
from tho strikers.
2e lIoxiu nos n conference with Govcraors
Marmaduke aud Martin ut st. Louis.
2S Jay Gould accepted proposal Cor ar
bitration. Mr. Powderly orders tho men 80
work.
30 The district assemblies K. Of L. refuse
to obey Powdcrly's order, and instruct tho
Missouri Pacific strikcrs not to resume work
81 Martin Irons issues q general ordor TO
tho Knights 70 resume work On tho Missouri
Pacific.
81 Six hundred nnd fifty morocco workers
o: Wilmington quit work.
-. Strike of Cohoes sprlinors ondad About
1902 persons Affected.
APRIL.
l. Tho striEe on Tho Gould roads has been
rcsuwyd on account of ths refusal cf Tic com
pany to rciastHtc Al tho stcikers
8 "BlDnly Saturday at Fort Worth,
TCT7s. Strikers rt,,Ht tho rlovc,nent Of
trims, firing n vollcy OF Winchester rifles into
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nOrGnily wounding two others. THO officers
rcr:!ud with rovolvcrs killing one striker.
5 M Ponde-ly formally recalls his order
10 tho Missouri Pacific rtrikors 10 re.unao
work
9 E,rnty sterifTS in last ct. Louii Gro
into = crowd, killing sovcn pcrsons, only ors
Cf ThSn w-s stalker
II. powdcrly makes ON tppeel 70 Gould fo-
tho s':,cmcnt Of the fouthwestcrn strike
Go0d replies, justifying his action and TO
fns'nG 70 grant tho request OF the knights for
arbitration
lG. a general TIC up ordered ON tho Now
York City Third Avenue Street railway.
10 Martin Irons, tho leader Ia tho great
southwestern strike Is. with threo others, in
dicted by tho gr ii grand jury at St Louis,
FOR tamleripG with telegraph wiros
Is Widow LardCraR boycotted In New
York city for employing non union bakers.
10 The Thin! avenue street car strikers,
Now York city, week cor and havo q
short but snvogo fight VITA tho police.
10 Tho great tic UP OF tho Now York city
street railroads IS Off, with the exception Of
tho Third avenue line.
90 Trains aro RAINING without molestation
on the Could roads, although the strikers
still profess 10 be confident OF ultimate sue
ceS2
90 The house committee at Washington
begins its investigation OF the strike on tho
Gould roads, 1t was continued for somo
time.
-. ugar house employees at Williamsburg,
n. y, OH strike for an increase Of wages
20 Thirty-aye members OF tho New York
Tailors' union indicted by the grand jury for
boycottng
81 Tho striking operatives OF tho Missouri
Car company have resumed work The Bal
timors street car strike has also como TO an
end.
a. The Third avenue street car strikers,
Now York CITY, put on free coaches for the
accommodation of persons who would other
wise bo compelled to rido In tho cars.
80. Chairman ODonnsll, Secretary Best.
and Graham, Hughes and Downing, OF the
Empire Protective association, indicted by
tho grand jury at New York for ordering the
tie up Of tho Third avenue cars.
MAY.
I. Chicago trades unions demand uniform
working day Of eight hours, without reduc-
tion OF wegcs. Tho same demands arc made
In many other cities
/. Forty thousand mon I'm Chicago go on
strike for eight hours Strike9 for similar
cause arc general all over tho country.
4. An attempt by the Chicago police to dis
perse meeting of As@AsS,aists was followed
by riot In which dynamite bomb wee
thrown by tho Anarchists among tho police,
killing six and woundiIg sixty-one.
o. Rioters fired upon and several killed by
the stato militia at milwaukee,, wis.
b. Moro shooting occurred at Chicago bo-
tween the police and Anarchists. and leading
rioters wero arrested.
O. milwaukee, rioters indicted.
o. Tho pianomnkels OF New York have
abandoned their demand for reduction TO
eight hours day.
TO- Dig strike at Chicago ended.
10 About 1900 girls. employees OF tho
Troy, N. Y, collar and cuff factories, locked
out by tho manufacturers ON account OF tho
strike OF tho laundry girls az George p. lido &
Co. a establishment.